Report from Maia on el Rio Dulce

Okay lets see. What can I tell you about the orphanage? I sleep on the bottom bunk, and no one else sleeps on the top. There is always the threat of spiders or scorpions climbing into bed with you, so I use a mosquito net at all times that I tuck tightly into my mattress. There is another bunk bed in my room, but no one is sleeping in it. The guy who lives with me is on break right now, so I have never met him. Everyone else lives in other rooms in the big volunteer house, and the walls are just mosquito netting, so we practically all live together. When someone goes to the bathroom, everyone knows it. The toilets don´t flush unless you pour some water down there. The showers are really refreshing, as the water is clean. They water is usually running all day and it turns out at night. Sometimes we have electricity, sometimes we don´t. I teach computer class at the moment, because I work in the office. There is usually electricity during these times. I don´t have much to teach most of the kids because they are already creating presentations in excel. I just let them play on the internet. The women who normally works in the office is a computer whiz, so when she get´s back, she´ll resume her classes. All the kids are looking forward to that. I am too, honestly. I hate working in the office. It´s boring most of the time with little blips of insane stress. Next week we have it all planned out that I will be a reading tutor, and an after school activity organizer. I am really looking forward to that. I´ll survive the office work. Last night we all went to the bar at the hotel. We all took the boat, went out to dinner (and had something other than rice and beans to eat) and then went to the bar. I had a CHEDDAR CHEESE sandwich with french fries. Granted, it wasn´t vermont cheddar, but it was GOOD, let me tell you. Later that night I met up with Norman. It is so nice to see him. He is the cutest, most beautiful Guatemalan guy you will ever see. Whoo, maybe I am in love? Whoa, I gotta go, they are turning off the electricity!
LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!
-Maia